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Princeton's WordNet

  1. erecting, erectionnoun

    the act of building or putting up

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  1. erecting

    Erecting refers to the action of constructing, building, raising, or setting up something in an upright position. It can refer to the building of structures like buildings or monuments, setting up equipment, or the physiological process in which body parts like penis or nipples become firm or rigid. It implies the process of assembly or creation from a state of disassembly or non-existence.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Erecting

    of Erect

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of erecting in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of erecting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of erecting in a Sentence

  1. Filippo Grandi:

    Now if Europe starts setting limits, pushing back, erecting barriers, being hostile, the rest of the world will follow, I can tell you.

  2. John Boehner:

    Don't start erecting walls between us as members. We all came here to help advance the conservative cause, it's not helpful for one group of members to say they will only vote for this candidate on the floor.

  3. Emma Winger:

    The government locks people up — often in remote facilities far from family and legal services providers — while erecting arbitrary barriers to accessing counsel, immigrants in detention should not have to struggle to have private conversations with their lawyers. The stakes are too high.

  4. Zelda:

    Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

  5. Albert Einstein:

    Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

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